Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 17.10.03 23:42:19:
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > IMHO the current "Display->User Specified Decodes..." and
> > "Tools->Decode As..." dialogs are a bit odd in a usability point of
> > view. It's not obvious, that this is a pair and where to find from one
> > to the other.
>
> That raises another issue.
>
> "Decode As" isn't something to let you edit the full set of decodes -
> unlike, for example, the "-d" flag in Tethereal. It's something to let
> you change the way the values of some fields in the currently-selected
> packet can be decoded.
>
> It might be useful to have something to let you view, and edit, *all*
> the dissector tables, which would be like an editable version of the
> current "User Specified Decodes".
>
> It might also be useful to have something to change the way the values
> of fields in the current packet can be decoded - *and* perhaps to also
> say "decode a *conversation* or *circuit* containing this packet as a
> particular protocol". That'd be like the current "Decode As...".
>
> "User Specified Decodes" might be under "Edit", and "Decode As..." might
> be under "Tools".
>
> We then might want to have a way to save the user-specified decodes.
> (This might let us get rid of some of the protocol "port number"
> preferences.)
This is one of the things, which have to looked at, in a more general perspective. This will affect other things as the "Display Filters" as well.
So I would like to fix the obvious (and trivial) things first, and then go back to this kind of things.
Regards, ULFL
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